Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 19305, for burglary), told the court how he had been won over, despite his early hostility. Charles Henderson, a maintenance worker, was also affected by the services: "One night I seen a vision . . . right on the bulkhead there in the jail." As for denying prisoners their rights, said counsel for the evangelists: "They can put their coats over their heads if they don't want to listen...
...Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some of my pressing personal problems...
...Friday's arguments, defense counsel Calvin P. Bartlett and government attorney John M. Harrington, Jr. '43 again took opposite views as to whether Kamin knew the subject he was called to testify about...
Onetime TV Quizmaster Rudolph Halley, 42, long a student of gambling as chief counsel of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, turned up as a stockholder in a sport and gambling enterprise, to operate in Puerto Rico. The promotion: a $1,500,000 jai alai palace, to be built just outside San Juan; it will seat 3,500 aficionados, provide them with such trimmings as five bars and parimutuel betting windows. Promoter Halley holds 30,000 shares of Puerto Rican Jai Alai, Inc.'s new stock. A Securities & Exchange Commission spokesman allowed that the public, in return for putting...
...Joan of Arc; Harcourt, Brace; $4.75). The record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment in a secular rather than an ecclesiastical prison, her lack of counsel, her inability to get an appeal through to Pope Eugene IV. The Rouen trial was full of inconsistencies and irregularities, e.g., after Joan made her famous "abjuration" renouncing her "errors," she was sentenced to life imprisonment, and what actually brought her to the stake was her return...